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Friday, June 27, 2014

MUMBAI: Christian
leaders have demanded reservations for Christian Dalits, most of whom
are poor, as Muslim leaders welcomed 5% reservations for their community
in education and jobs.

Abraham Mathai of the Indian Christian
Voice said, "The government should give reservations to Christians too
as most of them in the state are poor and tribals. Marginalized
Christians should not be ignored as they are a small minority."

Dolphy D'Souza of Save Our Land (SOUL) complained that Christians have
been ignored by successive governments as they "are not a big votebank".
She said that the 1950 Presidential order excluded Christian Dalits and
Muslim Dalits from the purview of quotas, as given to scheduled castes.

Muslim leaders demanded immediate implementation of the state cabinet's
decision and said the government must strongly defend it if challenged
in the Supreme Court.

Congress MLA Amin Patel, who had demanded
quotas for Muslims in the last monsoon session, said, "Reservations
have been a long-standing demand of the community, as panels headed by
Justice Rajinder Sachar, Ranganath Mishra and Mahmoodur Rahman had also
recommended quotas to empower Muslims. This will help mainstream the
community, which has felt alienated due to backwardness."

Signs
of Muslims getting reservations were evident when, replying to Patel's
questions, minister Fauzia Khan had said, "You will soon get good news."

But M A Khalid of the All-India Milli Council said the government
should have announced it earlier, as it seems like a sop before the
assembly elections.

Many said the state government should not
flinch from defending the decision in the apex court, if challenged.
Minority affairs minister Arif Naseem Khan said, "This is not the first
time Muslims have been given reservations in India. Karnataka and Andhra
Pradesh had provided reservations to economically poor Muslims, and
Muslims in Maharashtra too needed it."Click here for source

A village body (gram sabha) in Chhattisgarh’s tribal-dominated Bastar district has allegedly adopted a resolution barring entry of non-Hindu people. The resolution, allegedly passed at a special meeting of Sirisguda gram sabha recently, apprehended that entry of other religions would undermine the tribal culture and religion. The village meeting alleged that people of a particular minority community were dissuading locals to resort to local religious practices posing a threat to tribal culture and traditions.

“We have learnt about the resolution from local media and are going to take up the matter with the chief minister Raman Singh for appropriate action,” local Church leader Bhupendra Khora said on Tuesday.

When contacted, additional superintendent of police (ASP) S.R. Salam said, “No such incident has come to our notice. We have only received reports of clashes among some people in the locality”.

Chhattisgarh Christian Forum general secretary Arun Pannanal however alleged that several gram sabhas in Bastar have taken a similar stand as was done by gram sabha of Sirisguda.

“There is no legal sanction for such decisions, but vested interests are trying to push their agenda by using gram sabha as a platform,” he added.

When contacted, a senior officer of Chhattisgarh government told this newspaper that the matter would be probed and appropriate action would be taken to ensure that social harmony is not disturbed in the village.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Hindu extremists locked up a church on June 5 after they beat up a Christian family in Balwanazir, Kaliyanganj, Bihar. According to our correspondent, Pastor A. Abraham, the extremists repeatedly beat up Sadanandan Singh and his family for their faith in Christ on May and June and finally locked up the church of the Indian Evangelical Team. Singh and his family were dragged on the road and the entire family including two minor girls were beaten up mercilessly. "The extremists have locked up the church and told Singh that he is not allowed to pray in the future in the village." area pastor Laxmi Prasad told EFI News. Singh and his family were socially boycotted ever since they decided to follow Christ in 2010. Police complaint was submitted. However no action has been taken at press time.

A village body (gram sabha) in Chhattisgarh’s tribal-dominated Bastar
district has allegedly adopted a resolution barring entry of non-Hindu
people. The resolution, allegedly passed at a special meeting of
Sirisguda gram sabha recently, apprehended that entry of other religions
would undermine the tribal culture and religion. The village meeting
alleged that people of a particular minority community were dissuading
locals to resort to local religious practices posing a threat to tribal
culture and traditions.

“We have learnt about the resolution from local media and are going
to take up the matter with the chief minister Raman Singh for
appropriate action,” local Church leader Bhupendra Khora said on
Tuesday.

When contacted, additional superintendent of police (ASP) S.R. Salam
said, “No such incident has come to our notice. We have only received
reports of clashes among some people in the locality”.

Chhattisgarh Christian Forum general secretary Arun Pannanal however
alleged that several gram sabhas in Bastar have taken a similar stand as
was done by gram sabha of Sirisguda.

“There is no legal sanction for such decisions, but vested interests
are trying to push their agenda by using gram sabha as a platform,” he
added.

When contacted, a senior officer of Chhattisgarh government told this
newspaper that the matter would be probed and appropriate action would
be taken to ensure that social harmony is not disturbed in the village.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

A Tibetan Catholic husband and wife were victims of a vicious
murder in eastern India last week but the crime is not related to their
religion or recent conversion, an official of the local diocese has
claimed.
"It is wrong to give a religious twist to this. It has nothing to do
with religion," said Father Alex Gurung, the public relations officer
for Darjeeling diocese in West Bengal.

The attack took place in the remote Budhwar district of the state's
Kalimpong subdivision on the night of June 17. Several media reports
suggested that the couple may have been attacked because of their
Christian faith.

But Fr Gurung, who visited the scene and talked to
neighbors and witnesses, emphasized on Monday that the assailants "just
happened to be Hindus."
The couple were hacked to death and their 12-year-old daughter's eye was
gouged out. She is now in critical condition in hospital.

The couple's
four-year-old younger daughter escaped the attack by running away from
the family home.

"This was purely an act of vengeance," said Fr Grung, explaining that
the man who was killed stood as a witness against his attackers some
years ago in a separate court case.

The killers, a Hindu father and son, were arrested soon after the
incident.

This is what is happening in Chhattisgarh where the state government machinery is working with Hindutva radicals to stop 'foreign religions'. The tribals and not Hindus historically but no attempt is being spared to Hinduize them and to so called re-convert the tribals who are now Christians. Just three days ago 52 Christian families were beaten up mercilessly and 10 people ended up in Hospital just because they raised their voice against the discrimination they were facing. For more than 2 months these 52 Christian families were barred from taking ration from the ration shops of the village by an order of the elected village council head who is an active Hindu fundamentalist himself.

Now the government machinery and Hindutva brigade have gotten together to stamp out Christianity from the district and their decision says that propagation of only Hindu religion will be allowed and all other religions have to be kept out of the district. Is this India we live in anymore where the constitution promising religious freedom is still in force?